Conserving New England’s Amazing Spring Flora: A talk and slide show by Joan Edwards as the Sheffield Land Trust’s 27th Annual Winter Lecture (in the spring)
Organized by the Sheffield Land Trust
www.sheffieldland.org
Saturday, April 12 at 1pm
Doors Open: 12:30pm
Refreshments available
For more info: shefland@bcn.net
Dewey Hall
91 Main Street, Sheffield, MA 01257
Free (but donations are welcome)
*Pre-registration is needed if attending by Zoom
From skunk cabbage flowers with built-in furnaces to flowers that endure late snows, this talk explores how spring flowers are engineered to bloom when light still reaches the forest floor before the canopy trees leaf out. The flowers and their pollinators create shifting networks that may provide resilience against climate change and biodiversity. The talk is accompanied by a slideshow of beautiful photographs.
About the presenter: Joan Edwards has been professor of biology at Williams College since 1979. She is a botanist with a special interest in the evolution and conservation of flower and their insect visitors. She studies flowers in their natural setting to determine how flowers are designed and to identify pollination networks, using time-laps photography. With high-speed video, she also studies the adaptive significance of ultra-fast plant movements.
For more info: shefland@bcn.net, www.sheffieldland.org
Conserving New England’s Amazing Spring Flora: A talk and slide show by Joan Edwards as the Sheffield Land Trust’s 27th Annual Winter Lecture (in the spring)
Organized by the Sheffield Land Trust
www.sheffieldland.org
Saturday, April 12 at 1pm
Doors Open: 12:30pm
Refreshments available
For more info: shefland@bcn.net
Dewey Hall
91 Main Street, Sheffield, MA 01257
Free (but donations are welcome)
*Pre-registration is needed if attending by Zoom
From skunk cabbage flowers with built-in furnaces to flowers that endure late snows, this talk explores how spring flowers are engineered to bloom when light still reaches the forest floor before the canopy trees leaf out. The flowers and their pollinators create shifting networks that may provide resilience against climate change and biodiversity. The talk is accompanied by a slideshow of beautiful photographs.
About the presenter: Joan Edwards has been professor of biology at Williams College since 1979. She is a botanist with a special interest in the evolution and conservation of flower and their insect visitors. She studies flowers in their natural setting to determine how flowers are designed and to identify pollination networks, using time-laps photography. With high-speed video, she also studies the adaptive significance of ultra-fast plant movements.
For more info: shefland@bcn.net, www.sheffieldland.org
